Free Download: Guided By Voices' Sweet Ballad 'Doughnut for a Snowman'

Guided By Voices, 'Doughnut for a Snowman'

Michael Lavine

Click to listen to Guided By Voices' 'Doughnut for a Snowman'

"Doughnut for a Snowman," the latest single from the recently reunited Guided by Voices, is a gentle indie rock ballad grounded in a context that is quite literally sweet. "I married a ridiculous title I had written in a notebook about ten years ago to a jingle conceived for Krispy Kreme doughnuts that I never submitted," says frontman Robert Pollard. "It became about a young female aficionado of Krispy Kreme doughnuts who falls for the neighborhood ice cream man." The song will appear on the band's forthcoming album, Let's Go Eat the Factory, in January, but you can download the track here for free.

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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